Media Across the African Diaspora

Content, Audiences, and Influence
Herausgeber: Banjo, Omotayo O

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume gathers scholarship from various disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781138065482
• ISBN-10: 113806548X
• Artikelnr.: 53303888

Autorenporträt

Omotayo O. Banjo is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA. She focuses on representation and audience responses to racial and cultural media. Her work has been published in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Communication Theory, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Media and Religion, and Race and Social Problems. She most recently co-edited a volume on the topics of race, ethnicity, and faith called Contemporary Christian Culture: Messages, Missions, and Dilemmas.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword (Catherine Squires) Introduction (Omotayo O. Banjo) Part I:
Contributions to Mainstream Media Culture 1. The Early Black Press in
Canada (Tokunbo Ojo) 2. Increase Your Faith: The Mainstreaming of Black
Televangelism (Mark Ward) 3. Wrestling with Races: When Sitcoms, Families,
and Political Struggles Meet (Judy Iskasen) Part II: Owning Images and
Narratives 4. (Re) defining Images of African women": A Post-Feminist
Critique of the Ghanaian YouTube series "An African City" (Godfried Asante
and Rita Daniels) 5. Walking through Wakanda: A Critical Multimodal
Analysis of Black Superhero Comic Books (Christopher Brown, Brandon
McCasland, Kathryn Paris, and Sachi Sekimoto) Part III: Bridges Across the
African Diaspora 6. Stereotyped representations of African cultural values
in Black media: A critical analysis (Marquita Marie Gammage and Justin T.
Gammage) 7. Nollywood USA: Opportunities and Challenges in Forging a New
Pan African Storytelling and Identity (Adedayo Abah) Part IV: Audiences'
Responses and Effects 8. Exploring African Female Immigrants' Perceptions
of their Portrayal in the U.S. Media (Gloria Pindi) 9. Hardly Ever...I
Don't See It: Black Youth Speak about Positive Media Images of Black Men
(Valerie N. Adams-Bass and Erin Joann Henrici) 10. For Us only? Examining
the Effect of Viewing Context on Black Audiences' Perceived Influence of
Black Entertainment (Omotayo O. Banjo) Part V: Digital Diaspora 11. Social
Media and social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned
Media in the United States (Jeffrey Blevins) 12. Science and Identity
Construction among Black transnational Virtual Communities (Gado Alzouma)
13. "Prime Time" Geographies: Dancehall Performance, Visual Communication
and the Philosophy of Boundarylessness (Sonjah Stanley Niahh)